FORGET and FORGIVE past mistakes to implement solutions for a BETTER FUTURE (relationships & financial).
I BELIEVE YOU WILL AGREE that it is more difficult for all of us to admit that we have made a mistake in the past than it is for us to commit to doing what is right in the future.
THEREFORE it is nearly impossible to implement the right solutions for the future by trying to rectify past mistakes by demanding compensation for the wrongs of the past at the same time.
LET THE FOLLOWING BE OUR NEW YEAR RESOLUTION & COMMITMENT :
1. Forgive and put the mistakes of the past behind us and
2. Write off what was stolen from us and which cannot be repaid
3. Ensure that the Biblical Boundaries for our 7 Life Wheel Areas or Mountains are in place and stay in place going forward
4. Allow God to restore out of HIs bountiful storehouse to us seven fold of that which we were denied or of that which was stolen from us.
LET US CLOSE THE PREVIOUS YEAR CHAPTER BY :
1. Admitting our own mistakes,
2. Apologising for our mistakes,
3. Doing restitution where we can
4. Forgetting and forgiving the mistakes of others.
LET US COMMIT TO DOING WHAT IS RIGHT IN THE FUTURE :
1. Die to self and to allow the Lord to have His way IN and THROUGH us
2. Be expectant about all the more things the Lord will add to our lives in 2014 as we seek FIRST His honour, His kingdom and His will here on earth ..as it is in heaven!
LET US IN THE NEW YEAR NEVER FORGET THAT :
1. Our successes OUTSIDE our homes will never compensate for our failures IN our homes.
2. We are to be the grandparents, spouses, parents, children and grandchildren we are called by God to BE.
3. We are human BEings and not human DOIngs.
4. The only QUALITY TIME with our children, family and friends is QUANTITIY TIME.
LET US CLOSE THE CHAPTER OF THE PREVIOUS YEAR and put our failures and disappointments of the past year behind us and press on and BE and DO IN THE NEW YEAR that for which Christ Jesus has taken hold of us.
May God bless you, your family, friends and colleagues richly in the NEW YEAR as you walk and talk with Father God, Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit!
Matthys & Lorraine
Philippians 3:12-21
New International Version (NIV)
12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Following Paul’s Example
15 All of us, then, who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you think differently, that too God will make clear to you. 16 Only let us live up to what we have already attained.
17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.
